Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
ALAN GREENSPANAn almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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